In Photoshop 23.4 The Selection Tool Doesn't Select Properly

I think what you need to do is to firstly select View > Show > Grid.  Make your selection, then select Ctrl+T to show the transform handles, Right click on the image and select 'Skew'. Click and drag the necessary corners to pull your image out to the lines - not diagonally, vertically then horizontally. Click the green tick, then Crop (Image > Crop). Hope this helps.

Hi, 

Thanks for your response.

I know the image isn't a perfect square. My goal is to free transform it into a square but when I select the image, the selection doesn't adjust to the actual shape of the image, but creates a square around the image as you can see in the provided example. Typically, the selection should adjust to the actual shape of whatever the layer is, and then from that shape you can Free Transfrom by clicking and dragging the tiny squares in the corners of the shape. While it may cause distortion, I don't believe that adjusting this image to a square will distort it badly as a square shape isn't too far removed from the shape that it is currently. 

So I'm wondering why the selection doesn't put the tiny squares to the actual shape of the layer but rather creates a square, which means those tiny squares aren't actually touching the shape of the layer?